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  • #646
    Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

    Originally posted by Zudnic View Post
    The impetus for my original comment was that I felt like Couples Retreat was being sold as a a film like Apatow's best. In reality it contained no character development and no real conflict. This is clear from the "I just want to be with my family" message of the movie's finale. Bottom line is that it just didn't work.
    Much agreed. Like Four Christmases, the cost of admission was not worth the two or three vintage Vince lines. Not to mention, for being set in the tropics, hot babes were serious lacking. Seeing Sarah Marshall's hip bones did nothing for me.

    Skip it and save it for a semi-comatose Sunday evening rental.
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    • #647
      Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

      Originally posted by goldy_331 View Post
      Like a debit or credit card instead of checks?
      These CDs and DVDs will never replace cassettes and VHS

      And what's it with this Apple II future box?
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      • #648
        Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

        Originally posted by The Paragon of Virtue View Post
        They showed a preview for the next Twilight movie. The audience was not interested.
        Thankfully I date the one girl under 30 who doesn't want to be a vampire. The audience at Couples Retreat was really mixed over this preview. The younger girls were looking left and right at their boys to see if it was exciting enough to con them into going. The older people had no love.

        Anyone else catch the trailer for Sherlock Holmes? I'm not sure I can trust that this will be any good. It's the second time I've seen it in a couple of weeks (The Informant), and I'm not convinced...

        Also, I'm glad that Couples Retreat spared us the 2012 preview. This movie makes me hope that the Mayan calendar does predict the end of the world, so that I'll perish knowing I'll never have to waste any of my life on movies like that.
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        • #649
          Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

          Originally posted by seanpc03 View Post
          Thankfully I date the one girl under 30 who doesn't want to be a vampire. The audience at Couples Retreat was really mixed over this preview. The younger girls were looking left and right at their boys to see if it was exciting enough to con them into going. The older people had no love.

          Anyone else catch the trailer for Sherlock Holmes? I'm not sure I can trust that this will be any good. It's the second time I've seen it in a couple of weeks (The Informant), and I'm not convinced...

          Also, I'm glad that Couples Retreat spared us the 2012 preview. This movie makes me hope that the Mayan calendar does predict the end of the world, so that I'll perish knowing I'll never have to waste any of my life on movies like that.
          I have seen the Sherlock Holmes trailer a few times and I have the same feeling as you. I just don't buy the idea of Sherlock Holmes as an action star fighting bad guys and jumping around quipping one-liners like it is a Die Hard movie. I am sure it will make uber cash though so it wont matter anyways.

          2012 I think visually looks cool (watching LA fall apart is awesome) but the movie itself is going to suck hard. The only question is, if John Cusack saves the world how does Jeremy Piven play into the movie?

          I saw the preview for Legion and for some reason I am somewhat intrigued...I am sure that will change but I enjoyed the preview a lot.
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          • #650
            Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            Honest question: what did people like about Knocked Up? I thought it was the poster child for unfunny, predictable formula movie.
            It had good writing and I liked the development, not much more to describe it other than that, it was Apatow writing guys as guys, which is his strength.

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            • #651
              Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
              I have seen the Sherlock Holmes trailer a few times and I have the same feeling as you. I just don't buy the idea of Sherlock Holmes as an action star fighting bad guys and jumping around quipping one-liners like it is a Die Hard movie. I am sure it will make uber cash though so it wont matter anyways.
              c.f., "Shakespeare in Love."

              If they give Holmes a love interest I'm torching the theater. One of the great things about the character is he is utterly bereft of sexuality.
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              • #652
                Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                c.f., "Shakespeare in Love."
                Also "A Knight's Tale". Hey, it's the middle ages but they're dancing to modern songs, that's witty and makes it a good movie!

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                • #653
                  Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  If they give Holmes a love interest I'm torching the theater.
                  I'd go with the "I'll just refrain from seeing the movie" course of action, but to each their own.
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                  • #654
                    Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                    Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                    Also "A Knight's Tale". Hey, it's the middle ages but they're dancing to modern songs, that's witty and makes it a good movie!
                    "We Will Rock You" totally belongs in medieval time.
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                    • #655
                      Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      If they give Holmes a love interest I'm torching the theater. One of the great things about the character is he is utterly bereft of sexuality.
                      Maybe they'll cast Rachel Weisz or Angelina Jolie as Watson ...
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                      • #656
                        Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                        Originally posted by ScottM View Post
                        Maybe they'll cast Rachel Weisz or Angelina Jolie as Watson ...
                        I'd go see it.
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                        • #657
                          Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          If they give Holmes a love interest I'm torching the theater. One of the great things about the character is he is utterly bereft of sexuality.
                          Something tells me they won't delve into his love for the needle as another means of ignoring the true character.

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                          • #658
                            Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                            Is it really so bad for someone to make a different interpretation of the character that focuses on different aspects?

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                            • #659
                              Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                              Originally posted by The Paragon of Virtue View Post
                              Is it really so bad for someone to make a different interpretation of the character that focuses on different aspects?
                              No but there is a change of focus and a change of character and nothing I have seen in the preview (which is obviously just a small slice of the movie) makes me think I am watching a movie about Sherlock Holmes minus the accent and his barbs with Watson.

                              Hey it could be great, I mean the Bourne movies only had the names of some characters to tie them to the books and I enjoyed them a lot. V for Vendetta while similar in tone once again was a huge departure from the book but I still enjoyed it. Of course Jason Bourne and V aren't exactly on the same level as Sherlock Holmes. This could be like them, or it could be like Starship Troopers which was a friggin joke. I don't think there is anything wrong with being concerned that one of the greatest characters in all of literature might look foolish in this forthcoming movie.
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                              • #660
                                Re: new/rented movies: DEVASTATOR!!!!!

                                Originally posted by Handyman View Post
                                I don't think there is anything wrong with being concerned that one of the greatest characters in all of literature might look foolish in this forthcoming movie.
                                There's a point when a character has been done so many different ways that no single portrayal makes a difference, and Holmes is past that point. We've had Holmes as genius, madman, aristo, junkie, queer, fool, and teen. Heartthrob was probably inevitable. Worse atrocities have been committed.
                                Last edited by Kepler; 10-13-2009, 09:04 PM.
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